{"id":15331,"date":"2013-03-22T16:37:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T21:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=15331"},"modified":"2013-03-22T16:37:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T21:37:57","slug":"rep-muscha-struggled-with-abortion-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=15331","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Muscha &#8220;Struggled&#8221; With Abortion Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Muscha-Dist24.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11233\" title=\"Muscha-Dist24\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Muscha-Dist24-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Muscha-Dist24-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Muscha-Dist24-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Muscha-Dist24.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP Mar 22, 2013) &#8211; A North Dakota lawmaker says she struggled when deciding how to cast her votes on the spate of recent anti-abortion legislation that&#8217;s been debated.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 District 24 State Rep. Naomi Muscha said Friday that though she campaigned on a pro-life platform, she couldn&#8217;t approve the anti-abortion measures. Three of the four measures passed the House, including a so-called personhood resolution that says a fertilized egg has the same right to life as a person. Voters will decide in 2014 whether to add the wording to the state constitution.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Muscha says she weighed the pros and cons and &#8220;they were not easy decisions to make.&#8221; She says her votes might cost her a re-election bid in the conservative state.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But she adds that she voted her convictions and &#8220;can live with&#8221; herself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP Mar 22, 2013) &#8211; A North Dakota lawmaker says she struggled when deciding how to cast her votes on the spate of recent anti-abortion legislation that&#8217;s been debated. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 District 24 State Rep. Naomi Muscha said Friday that though she campaigned on a pro-life platform, she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15332,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15331\/revisions\/15332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}